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While the enthusiasm behind the club system apparently remains strong, many clubs, especially the nonselective ones, suffer from precarious economic states when they do not fill their quota of members. "The open clubs have the hardest time because they are susceptible to last minute "pull-outs," and get greater variance than the selective clubs," said Wister Wood, president of Cap and Gown, a co-ed selective club. At one point in CURL's development, the college extended an open invitation to the eating clubs to become financially supported by the university. "Essentially, they wanted to buy the clubs out, which...
...latest foreign cry of protest came from four English-speaking universities in South Africa itself The Pretoria Government precipitated this newest clash. Starting last week the South African Parliament was scheduled to debate quota regulations concerning admission of Blacks to that nation's universities. Such a system would replace the current policy, under which the Minister of Black Education reviews cash Black student's application. This review system applies, to Asian and "colored," or mixed race, applicants as well. Like most of the apartheid policies, this one also began in 1959. Since that time, the English-speaking universities have opposed...
Professor Peter Booysen, acting principal of the University of Natal, one of the four involved, has told The New York Times that "we are totally opposed to any form of admission policy based on criteria other than academic criteria." His colleges have denounced almost unanimously the proposed quota system as an affront to the principles of university autonomy and racial equity in higher education. Furthermore, the senate of the largest institution involved, the University of the Witwatersrand, issued a pointed statement last month, nothing that the University's leaders condemned any attempt to "compel the university to become an instrument...
...internal affairs, even in nations that have little sympathy for Nicaragua's Marxist line. For example, Panama's sugar industry is severely depressed, and many workers at the mills are on layoff. But Panamanians insist that they will spurn any part of Nicaragua's sugar quota that might be offered to them. As for the Washington-supported military campaign of the contras, many Central Americans echo the concern of one Panamanian banker. Says he: "Honduras is being dragged in, and Costa Rica [where a second group of exiles is talking of infiltrating Nicaragua from the south] could...
...Peking is bitter about U.S. restrictions on the export of high technology and quotas on China's textile imports. Even though Reagan loosened the technology controls last year, China resents that it is still in a more restrictive category than India, which, Peking points out, has close ties to the Soviets. Failure to reach agreement on the amount of Chinese textiles that could be sold in the U.S. resulted in the quota's being frozen at the 1982 level...